{"id":29404,"date":"2020-05-04T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=29404"},"modified":"2020-11-12T18:37:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T23:37:45","slug":"royal-gardner-says-clean-water-act-ruling-shows-science-still-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2020\/05\/04\/royal-gardner-says-clean-water-act-ruling-shows-science-still-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Gardner says Clean Water Act ruling shows &#8216;science still matters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:18px\">By Philip Brasher, Steve Davies and Bill Tomson<br><em>Agri-Pulse<\/em><br>May 4, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Excerpt<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"159\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gardner.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Royal Gardner\" class=\"wp-image-18983\"\/><figcaption>Professor Royal Gardner<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Environmental groups suing over the Trump administration\u2019s new WOTUS rule have found some support for their court challenges in a recent Supreme Court decision. That\u2019s according to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/faculty\/gardner-royal-c\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Gardner<\/a>, a law professor at Stetson University, who was the lead attorney for aquatic scientists and scientific societies who filed an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2020\/04\/25\/stetson-law-plays-role-in-supreme-court-decision-on-clean-water-act-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amicus brief<\/a>\u00a0on the side of environmental groups in a Clean Water Act case out of Maui County, Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 6-3 ruling found that a CWA permit may be needed for discharges of pollutants transported via groundwater into a \u201cwater of the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe individual scientists who worked on the brief \u2026 were delighted that science still matters,\u201d Gardner said on an Environmental Law Institute webinar. \u201cThe court clearly considered science in reaching its decision, and the decision itself is grounded in science.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"border-top: 1px solid #cccccc;width:100px;margin: 20px 0px 15px 0px !important;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 11.5px;line-height:18px;padding-bottom:15px;\">This article was originally published on the Agri-Pulse website on May 4, 2020, with the headline, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.agri-pulse.com\/articles\/13598-daybreak-may-4-congress-gears-up-for-cares-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daybreak May 4: Congress gears up for CARES 2<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Philip Brasher, Steve Davies and Bill TomsonAgri-PulseMay 4, 2020 Excerpt Environmental groups suing over the Trump administration\u2019s new WOTUS rule have found some support for their court challenges in a recent Supreme Court decision. 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